mews

noun

/mjuːz/

(plural mews)

(British English)

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a short, narrow street with a row of stables (= buildings used to keep horses in) that have been made into small houses马厩街（周围排列着马厩改建的住房）
- They live in St Mary’s Mews.他们住在圣玛丽教堂。
CultureMews homes are usually small but they are considered very fashionable and are therefore expensive to buy or rent, especially in parts of central London such as Kensington and Chelsea.
Topics Transport by car or lorryc2
Word Originlate Middle English: plural of mew ‘a cage or building for training hawks’, originally referring to the royal stables on the site of the hawk mews at Charing Cross, London. The sense ‘converted dwellings’ dates from the early 19th cent.

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